Give us more P-38's
Army Air Forces production-appeal poster: P-38 Lightnings over the Pacific with burning Japanese fighters trailing smoke, beside a boxed quotation from an 'Army Air Forces report' on a mission. The tell is a selected success (7 sure, 2 probable, no damage) quoted from an official source as the case for more aircraft.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Air Forces; artist Heaslip
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-893 (NAID 514398).
Text on the object
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER "The leader of the first element set his Zero afire at the top of the loop . . . rolled out with a Zero on his tail . . . his wing man shot it down . . . Altogether these 4 P-38's met 11 Zeros on this mission, shot down 7 sure and 2 probables. They returned to base without a single bullet hole in them." Army Air Forces report Give us MORE P-38's [signature: HEASLIP '44] ISD No. 158 [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944-O-[illegible]]
